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HC125 .G25313 1997. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (in Spanish: Las venas abiertas de América Latina) is a book written by Uruguayan journalist, writer, and poet Eduardo Galeano, published in 1971, that consists of an analysis of the impact that European settlement, imperialism, and slavery have had ...
The Río de la Plata behaves as an estuary in which freshwater and seawater mix. The freshwater comes principally from the Paraná River (one of the world's longest rivers and La Plata's main tributary) as well as from the Uruguay River and other smaller streams. Currents in the Río de la Plata are dominated by tides reaching to its sources ...
Soon after, irregular suburbs began to appear outside the designed limits of La Plata. These suburbs would go on to become an integral part of La Plata Partido municipality. Neighboring Berisso and Ensenada, on the Río de la Plata shore, acted from then on as natural harbors for the new capital city of the Province, and gradually they also ...
Juan de Ayolas (died c. 1537) was a conquistador born in Briviesca who explored the watershed of the Río de la Plata for the Spanish Crown.He accompanied Pedro de Mendoza on his 1534 expedition to colonize the region between the Río de la Plata and the Strait of Magellan and briefly succeeded him as the second governor of the region after Mendoza returned home in 1537.
La Plata (Spanish pronunciation: [la ˈplata]) is the capital city of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. According to the 2022 census, the Partido has a population of 772,618 and its metropolitan area, the Greater La Plata, has 938,287 inhabitants. [2] It is located 9 kilometers (6 miles) inland from the southern shore of the Río de la Plata ...
The Diccionario de la lengua española[ a] ( DLE; [ b] English: Dictionary of the Spanish language) is the authoritative dictionary of the Spanish language. [ 1] It is produced, edited and published by the Royal Spanish Academy, with the participation of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language. It was first published in 1780, as ...
8 August 1776 Part of Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata (see Argentina). 16 July 1809 – November 1809 Independent state proclaimed in Upper Peru nominally in the name of the Bourbon king Ferdinand VII of Spain, who had been deposed by Napoleon. 1811 – 1816 Proclaimed a province of Río de la Plata (see Argentina). 1816 Re-incorporated into Peru.